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Tag: Helping The People Help Themselves

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HELPING THE PEOPLE HELP THEMSELVES By Sharif Gemie

By storgy on April 27, 2020March 24, 2020

The Training Centre (Normandy, April 1945) Eleanor has found a needle and thread: she can sew my shoulder patches on now. We walk down to the crumbling concrete bench that runs along the esplanade, and look at the waves. I give her my khaki jacket and the two little pieces of cloth, and watch as

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